that is both, in washington, on capitol hill, but also in the media. the media, the beltway i think has bought into this idea that deficits are the primary conversation we should be having. but if you look at it as a historic matter, you know, what did fdr do wrong after injecting a huge amount of stimulus in to the economy he gave into the temptation to attack deficits than he did austerity which plunged the country back into a recession. what did europe do wrong? they responded to this huge economic crisis with austerity and in the case of great britain they went into a double-dip recession. their economy is flat-lined because of austerity. so, you know, president obama has a great opportunity to not make the mistakes of history and not make the mistakes of europe. austerity doesn't work. the other issues and we talk about that budget fight, what you're saying accurately that after 2010, we're going to try austerity, we're going to do what the republicans want, which is cuts, we found out how difficult it is to find things to shave off the budget. there are only a few things to cut. there's